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Pete Hegseth: “President Trump has drawn a new strategic map from Greenland…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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The answer to our challenge is not to ignore our geography in the name of global interests, but to embrace our shared geography in the name of national interests. That is why President Trump has drawn a new strategic map from Greenland to the Gulf of America to the Panama Canal and its surrounding countries. At the Department of War, we call this strategic map the Greater North America. Why? Because every sovereign nation and territory north of the equator, from Greenland to Ecuador and from Alaska to Guyana, is not part of the Global South. (24:29–24:37)

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